Ruth Litan is a filmmaker and a visual artist working in fiction and documentary filmmaking, moving image, sound installations, and sculpture.
Ruth holds a BFA from the Sam Spiegel Film School Jerusalem. She received the New Artist Society scholarship from the Film, Video, New Media and Animation program at SAIC.
Her films were internationally screened in festivals where she won various prizes, such as FIPA, Biarritz, France, etc.
Her focus and devotion are to examine patriarchy through storytelling, cinema, the moving image, and its connection to objects and matter.
Through her works, she is examining the history of cinema in relation to the male gaze, trauma, sexuality, the sub-conscience, and nature.
By making her own images, as well as appropriating cinematic materials, she reconstructs moving images into live reactions with optical materials such as glass and metal.
In this way, she explores the possible connections between cinema and sculpture.